if you could
rank the rarest elliott smith related releases it would be all the cassette
tapes from elliott's high school band, stranger than fiction and elliott's
after high school/college band, a murder of crows.

a murder
of crows could be considered the rarest of all officially released cassettes
because many fans are not even aware that elliott was in a band after
stranger than fiction and before heatmiser. the band consisted of elliott
(known as elliott stillwater-rotter at the time of the release) and
garrick duckler who played with elliott in stranger than fiction. no
album cover or list of songs have ever made it out in the public, but
it is known that the cassette was their only release and it was sold
at 2nd avenue records in portland at one point. none of elliott's songs
from this release has ever made it on the internet.

hopefully
one day we will be lucky enough to give you more information about the
cassette and what it might of looked like.